I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can… — Anne Lamott Art Copy Share Image
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and… — Anne Lamott Basics Copy Share Image
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate… — Anne Lamott Acceptance Copy Share Image
I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about… — Anne Lamott Better day Copy Share Image
Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe.… — Anne Lamott Across the universe Copy Share Image
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn… — Anne Lamott Beauty Copy Share Image
“In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a… — Anne Lamott Niche Copy Share Image
“Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the… — Anne Lamott Compassion Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on… — Anne Lamott Advice Copy Share Image
“I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some… — Anne Lamott Existence Copy Share Image
I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when… — Anne Lamott Success Copy Share Image
“And I’d stand there trying to see it, the way you try to remember a dream, where you squint and it’s right… — Anne Lamott Dream Copy Share Image
